Rick brings extensive experience as an Executive Coach to C-level Executives, IT Leaders, and Business Leaders. His areas of expertise include fostering high-performing organizations, with a focus on cultivating strong values and implementing agile best practices to build high-performing teams. Rick is the originator of a leadership continuous improvement program that emphasizes AI integration to enable leaders to excel in today's rapidly evolving marketplace. The program is designed to create a sustainable system that enhances product delivery speed and quality, promotes positive cultural change, and fosters productivity in self-organizing organizations.As a seasoned practitioner, I am responsible for guiding, training, and coaching organizations through strategic changes aimed at enhancing business agility by boosting efficiency and effectiveness across all organizational levels. My primary clientele comprises large and medium-sized Fortune 500 companies seeking to transform their organizational culture to emphasize team accountability, collaboration, innovation, and results. My goal is to achieve significant improvements in time-to-market, organizational alignment, team engagement, and product quality by leveraging AI to build new capabilities.I lead a high-performing cross-functional transformation team with expertise in all facets of business agility. Our team uses cutting-edge methodologies, applications, tools, and processes to identify opportunities for improvement across the entire organization, from Executive to Portfolio, Programs, and Teams.

As an Enterprise Coach (EC) I was responsible for supporting the development of agility continuous improvement culture. I developed and supported a learning organization model through coaching, training, mentorship, and acting as a servant leader. I was a pivotal team member who helped IPC through their Agile IT and Business transformation to be one of the top Agile shops in South Florida.Host of the Quarterly Agile Executive Transformation Experience. Over 200 C-Level executives attended.

As a lead project manager, I planned, directed, and coordinated activities for Major IT projects in order to ensure project goals were accomplished within defined scope, time, and cost constraints. Started an initiative to use Scrum.

As a Project Manager / Supervisor of EPM System, I was responsible for the Enterprise Project Management standards and procedures. Monitoring and reporting on actuals Vs. baseline progress, productivity, and trends. Identified and communicated resource constraints, schedule/budget variance, and other critical IT project-related issues to the Director of Application Development. Reviewed and mentored project managers with their executive project status reports, PM resource availability. Responsible for project schedule health checks reports while mentoring project managers on PMO standards and guidelines.

As a Project Coordinator for an SAP international implementation project, budgeted for 7 Million. My main responsibility was maintaining and reporting on the project plan, timeline, and budget.

Role included project management and project tracking of various projects approved by the PMO office, defining timelines, allocating resources, providing estimates, analyze process flow, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Enhancements, Issues, Defects and Change Requests. Utilization and administration of MS Project Server 2003, SharePoint, Rational: Defect Tracking and Requirement developer archiving.

Instructor: Microsoft Networking Certification Classes.

Supervised a team of 8 QA Engineers in architecture, execution, and creation of web-based cruise lines systems (Carnival, Norwegian, etc.). Developed automated and manual test scripts for a software development company throughout the development life cycle. Configured, administered, and supported the Rational Tool Suite. Involved in training new users, troubleshooting issues, and installing patches. Documented and reported the progress of the stability of the application and pending issues to upper management. The technology consisted of: Rational Suite 2002 (Administrator, SQA Robot, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Test Manager, Load Test, Site Check), Microsoft Project Windows 98, NT, 2000 using dissimilar browsers, XML, Visual Basic, IIS, MS Performance Monitor and Network Monitor, MS SQL and Oracle.

Trained clients in a variety of applications: Insurance and Investment, Data Modeling, Crystal Report Generator, MS Access, and MS Word. Migrated client database to Microsoft SQL Server. Provided network optimization, technical support, and developed with MS Access program to interact with the database. Also, proficient in Sybase, NetWare, Windows NT, Windows 95 98, Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Responsible for the statistical department that consisted of 14 employees. (Data entry clerks, programmers, computer maintenance technicians, contractors, and interns) Provided statistical services reports to over 10 funding sources. The database consisted of 40,000 clients. Administered a NetWare 4.1 and Windows NT network. Applications include Office 97 and Solomon. Programming languages include FoxPro, Visual Basic, and Access.